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TWCA Summer Conference 2021 June 9-11 Horseshoe Bay Resort Welcome back, friends! Table of Contents Sponsors................................................................pages 4-5 Schedule of Events................................................pages 6-7 Keynote Speaker Bios................................................page 8 Keynote Panel Speaker Bios................................pages 9-10 Speaker Bios......................................................pages 10-12 Partner Spotlight......................................................page 13 TWCA Staff and Board.......................................pages 14-15 Schedule at a Glance............................................back cover TWCA VISION & MISSION VISION To be a trusted resource promoting sound water policy for Texas. MISSION Thank you to our conference sponsors! Membership & Services Committee Networking Reception Thursday Evening Networking Reception Networking Break - Coffee Networking Break - Ice Cream Treats Lanyards Name Badges 4 Platinum Plus Sponsors Platinum Sponsors Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors Bronze Sponsors Law Offices of Glenn Jarvis 5 TWCA Summer Conference 2021 Horseshoe Bay Resort | June 9-11 Wednesday, June 9, 2021 11:00am 14th Jim Adams Memorial Golf Tournament (Noon Tee Time) Slickrock Course at Horseshoe Bay Resort 5pm Membership & Services Networking Reception Tower Palm Pavillion Sponsored by: Thursday, June 10, 2021 Thank you to our general session/platinum plus sponsors! 8am Endangered Species Committee Meeting – Limestone 9am Federal Affairs Committee Meeting – Granite Ballroom 10am Water Quality Committee Meeting – Limestone 11am Membership & Services Committee Meeting – Granite Ballroom Speaker Sessions – Granite Ballroom 1:15pm Welcome and Opening Remarks 1:30-2pm KEYNOTE: State Representative Chris Paddie Chairman, House State Affairs Committee 2-3pm KEYNOTE PANEL: State of Water Infrastructure Panel, Christine Arbogast - NWRA and Kogovsek and Associates, Jeff Walker - Texas Water Development Board, and Kevin Ward - Trinity River Authority (Moderated by Susan K. Roth, American Society of Civil Engineers-Texas Section and Susan Roth Consulting, LLC ) 3pm Ice Cream Treats Break – Granite Ballroom Foyer Sponsored by: 6 (Continued) Thursday, June 10, 2021 3:20-3:50pm State Water Planning Update, John Dupnik - Texas Water Development Board 3:50-4:15pm Water + Weather, Dr. Nelun Fernando - Texas Water Development Board 4:15pm Break – Granite Ballroom Foyer 4:30pm TWCA Board Meeting & Awards Presentation (TWCA 2021 award winners will be recognized before the meeting begins. Please join us!) 6:30pm Thursday Evening Reception – Tower Palm Pavillion Sponsored by: Friday, June 11, 2021 Endangered Species Committee Meeting – Limestone 9-9:30am Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations, Glenn Clingenpeel Federal Affairs Committee Meeting – Granite Ballroom - Trinity River Authority and Jerry Cotter - U.S. Army Corps. of Water Quality Committee Meeting – Limestone Engineers Membership & Services Committee Meeting – Granite Ballroom 9:30-10am Incorporating Remote Work in Your Organization Permanently, Cory Shockley - HDR Engineering and Vanessa Escobar - Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District 10am Break – Granite Ballroom Foyer 10:20-10:50am KEYNOTE: Chairwoman Brooke Paup - Texas Water Development Board 10:50-11:50am Legislative Update, Shauna Fitzsimmons Sledge - SledgeLaw Group, Bill Lauderback - Lower Colorado River Authority, Xochil Peña Rodriguez - San Antonio River Authority, Bryan McMath - Texas Water Development Board, and Isaac Jackson - Texas Commission on Environmental Qualty (Moderated by Sarah Kirkle, TWCA) Coffee Breaks Sponsored by: 7 Keynote Speaker Bios State Representative Chris Paddie was born in Center and raised in Carthage, Texas. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University. Rep. Paddie is the former Mayor and City Commissioner of Marshall, Texas. He also served as the general manager of KMHT radio station and hosted a weekday morning show. He and his family now run radio stations across three different cities in East Texas. Elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2012, he has served on a number of different committees, including serving as chair of the Energy Resources Committee and now the powerful State Affairs Committee. For his work in recent legislative sessions, Chris was honored as a “Courageous Conservative” by the Texas Conservative Coalition and as a “Lone Star Conservative Leader” by the Texas Conservative Roundtable. Most recently, Chris was named an “Effective Conservative” by the Conservative Roundtable of Texas. Chairwoman Brooke Paup has served as a Board member of the Texas Water Development Board since February 22, 2018. Governor Greg Abbott designated her as Chairwoman on April 22, 2021. Prior to her appointment to the Board, Paup served as the director of legislative affairs for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts for the previous three years. While there, she led a team of legislative professionals to address statutory tax reforms. Paup is formerly the deputy division chief of intergovernmental relations and former special assistant for policy and research for the Office of the Attorney General, where she worked on legislative issues, special litigation, and public finance-notably House Bill 4 and Senate Joint Resolution 1 in the 83rd Legislative Session, which created the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas (SWIFT) and the State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for Texas (SWIRFT). Paup has 15 years of state government experience. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas and Symphony League and a board member of the Wine and Food Foundation of Texas Auction Committee. Paup earned a bachelor of arts from Texas A&M University and a juris doctor from Texas Tech School of Law. She lives in Austin with her husband, Spivey, and their two children, Henry and Heidi. 8 Keynote Panel Speaker Bios Christine Arbogast is a native has also overseen the implementation of a Coloradan, born in Pueblo new state flood program which has initiated and a graduate of Southern the first statewide flood planning and which Colorado State College, now to date has funded over $300 million in flood Colorado State University at improvement projects across Texas. Walker Pueblo. She earned a Bachelor holds a master of business administration of Arts degree with majors in both journalism from Texas State University and a bachelor of and political science. Following graduation, science in agricultural economics from Texas she was a reporter and editor in Canon City, A&M University. He is the current treasurer and Colorado, and then a news and feature writer a member of the board of directors for the for the Durango Herald. Christine began work Council of Infrastructure Financing Authorities. with Congressman Ray Kogovsek in 1979. She served as his press secretary and concentrated Kevin Ward is general manager on legislative issues including Native American of the Trinity River Authority of affairs, water, agriculture and local government. Texas. In his role as the chief She remained in Washington until July of executive officer, Ward oversees 1984, and returned to Colorado to work as a the largest river authority in special projects administrator for the Colorado Texas and the largest wholesale Commissioner of Agriculture. In 1985, Christine provider of wastewater returned to work for Ray Kogovsek. Christine treatment services in the state. Ward previously is President and Chair of the Federal Affairs served as executive administrator of the Texas Committee of the National Water Resources Water Development Board from 2002 to 2011 Association and has received the President’s and in various other capacities at that state Award from three different leaders of the agency from 1987 to 2002. Ward currently organization. serves as chair of the Region C Regional Water Planning Group and is a member of the Region Jeff Walker was named H Water Planning Group, the Trinity and San Executive Administrator of the Jacinto River Basins and Galveston Bay Basin Texas Water Development and Bay Area Stakeholder Committee, and Board on May 19, 2016. the Tarrant Regional Water District Customer Walker has served in various Advisory Committee. He serves as a board areas of the TWDB for more and executive committee member of the than 30 years, including as an North Texas Commission and on the TWCA Agricultural Conservation Specialist, a Financial executive committee and as chair of TWCA’s Analyst, a Non-Point Source Coordinator, River Authority Panel. He is Vice President Director of Project Development, and Deputy and a board member of the National Water Executive Administrator of Water Supply and Resources Association. He also serves as Infrastructure. Looking back, his experience chair of the Association’s Corps of Engineers throughout the agency was training for his Task Force. Ward was honored in 2011 with current role as what he calls the “best job the Water Environment Association of Texas in Texas.”Under his leadership, the TWDB Outstanding Public Official Award, and in 2012 has been named among top workplaces in with TWCA’s President’s Award. Austin annually since 2017 and demonstrated exemplary fiscal management of its bond sale Susan Roth has 25 years of programs, which continually receive the highest experience in the water and credit ratings. To date, the agency has issued wastewater field. Her career over $6.5 billion in bonds and committed includes experience